Re: Don't lose your *Remember* buffer

,-- On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:49:38 -0500, Andrew J. Korty wrote:

[...]

| I use the following in .emacs to keep me from accidentally destroying
| a *Remember* buffer by exiting Emacs.  There's also something for Gnus
| in there.  Is there a better way?  If not, enjoy.
| 
| ,----
| | (defun my-cleanup-then-save-buffers-kill-emacs (&optional arg)
| |   "Clean up before saving buffers and killing Emacs."
| |   (interactive "P")
| |   ;; stop here if there's a *Remember* buffer
| |   (if (get-buffer remember-buffer)
| |       (remember)
| |     ;; clean up Gnus
| |     (and
| |      (fboundp 'gnus-alive-p)
| |      (gnus-alive-p)
| |      (let ((gnus-interactive-exit nil))
| |        (gnus-group-exit)))
| |     (save-buffers-kill-emacs arg)))
| | (global-set-key "\C-x\C-c" 'my-cleanup-then-save-buffers-kill-emacs)
| `----

There is a hook (_of course_ there is one! ;-) `kill-emacs-hook' for
doing things on exit, and another (kill-emacs-query-functions) one for
querying the user about killing Emacs (in certain circumstances).
Adding your function one of to the hook will be more robust a setup
(no key redefinition needed, and the same behaviour whichever way you
exit Emacs).

The last variable (which is run by save-buffers-kill-emacs) is
probably the best one for the remember function (e.g.

(defun remember-not-active-p ()
   (not (get-buffer remember-buffer)))

), kill-emacs-hook (run by `kill-emacs') is probably best for the gnus
thing (because it is not interactive).

Cheers,

Frederik Fouvry